Quotes about Authority

In Scripture, a name often connotes purpose, authority, makeup, and character. In fact, a person's name is frequently seen as an equivalent of that person.

You touch that young woman, and I will see you hang.

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things... she held up four big-knuckled fingers. ...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing... She closed her fingers into a fist. ...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.

Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!

A world is supported by four things... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.